The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

MIR. AND MRS, JAMES u BLAINE ana tnelr
daughters, Misses Margaret and Hattie
Blaine, sailed for Europe last week Wednes-
day by the steamer " Ems " from New York.
HOUSES in Hamburg, Germany, which
were occupied by 10000 people, have been
demolished to allow of improvements in
connection with the canal and the new
| harbor.
Accounts from all over Texas show the
most magnificent crop prospects since the
famous big crop of 1882 The wheat crop of
Minnesota will exceed last years by ten
per cent
AN earthquake at Vernome, Turkestan
! almost destroyed the town. A hundred
| twenty-five persons were killed and the
other inhabitants have fled to the open
country for safety
THE heavy decline in coffee caused a
panic in the New York exchange Monday
| and three firms suspended in consequence,
with liabilities which will probably exceed
one million dollars.
Mrs. ALBERT BROOKS of Juniata, Mich,
who went to Denver, Col, to get $4,000
| left her by an uncle, is said to have been
! kidnapped by robbers, and detectives are
working up the case.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Ohio & West Vir-
| gina railway struck a wagon containing j.
Adams and wife and two children, instantly
| killing the parents and one child. The
| other child was unhurt.
| Hon. WILLIAM A. WHEELER left most of
| his property to home missions After a few
requests to individuals $4,000 goes to home
missions, and some home missionary society
is the residuary legatee.
JOHN WANAMAKER of Philadelphia will
be fifty years old on July IL. The news
paper proprietors with whom he has been a
! liberal advertiser will on that date give him
a complimentary dinner
THE celebration at Fnlay Ohio, of the
discovery of natural gas in the state was at
tended by 10000 people There were
speeches by Senator Sherman, Governor
| Foraker, Murat Halstead and others.
THE dwelling of A. Brown in Bedford,
Ont, was burned last week. Four small
| children, all under ten years of age, per-
ished in the flames. The parents, with a
baby, barely escaped with their lives.
ACTING SURGEoN-GENERAL STONE of the
marine hospital service states that numerous
applications are being received from south
ern Florida for government aid against yell
low fever which cannot be legally granted.
FIVE boys-three named Beck and two
named Hindel-whose ages ranged from
nine to sixteen years, were drowned near
Maquoketa, Iowa, last week. Two of them
persisted while attempting to rescue the
others.
MIR. BLAINE has received over five hun
dred invitations from prominent people in
the United Kingdom and on the continent
to visit them. His last visit to Europe was
when he attended the Paris exposition
in 1867.
REV. r. WALPoLE WARREN of London
has accepted call to Holy Trinity church
New York city, formerly occupied by DR.
Stephen II. Tying, Jr Warren is son o.
Samuel Warren, author of " Ten Thousand
a Year"
TWENTY-FIVE million bushels of wheat are
in storage in Chicago and room for foul
million more is mortgaged, and as the tota
capacity of the elevators is only twenty
eight shorts they cannot find place fol
any more wheat.
THE monthly crop reports from cor
respondents in every county in Illinois
Ohio and Indiana say that wheat has
greatly improved in condition. and that the
Indications for corn are that there will b'
an unusual yield
ADJUTANT-GENERAL GRAY of the Crane
Army of the Republic is busly engaged il
issuing to all the posts in the country al
| important document in the nature of a de
pendent pension bill, whose passage will b,
urged upon the next congress.
THE government bill, which will be al
appendix to the coercion bill, providing TO
the trial of persons charged with grave of
fences by commission of judges, will b'
Immediately introduced in parliament ant
pushed through at the same time as thu
coercion bill.
A CLoUD-BuRsT near Johnstown Pa, sud
denly filled the Conemaugh river an,
Stony creek to overlooking, and the tow
was badly flooded. Two hundred peopl
were made homeless, and many others wer
obliged to take refuge in the upper storie
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will drop small points and fight the govern
ment fiercely on few important feature
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